”“Let me guess. They were having sex.”“Yes.”“So it didn’t seem so aberrant for the two of you to have sex.”I sighed.“I’ll be hones.... Even if we hadn’t known about Janet and Todd, I think we’d still have ended up where we did. I don’t think we used Janet and Todd to rationalize things until after they’d already happened. We got closer and closer ... emotionally.”“I suppose that doesn’t surprise me, either,” said Phoebe. “I never had a man who listened to me, did only what I wanted him to, cared. Vinnie dreamed. He was sitting in a chair, looking at a mirror. Inside it,was the bitch. She looked up head cocking to the side. Hello, Vinnie."What do you want?"In the control room, Juliana signaled.The bitch stood and walked up to stand before the mirror. She was dressedin a sheath of red that accentuated her hips. I've already told you. Shereplied. I am going to become the woman I wish to be. As he watched, sheslipped out of the dress, letting it pool like blood around her feet.Beneath it. Her tongue was thick in her mouth and I could feel her breathing tense, her fingers holding my hair tight, still hearing Duke at work on her, my fingers spreading, her body lifting, she was sucking the air from my mouth and then things went very still…holding…then releasing…her hands at her waist with mine and Duke whining his little lustful whines…her breath was in my ear, her tongue in my ear and her legs flailing and then she stopped and relaxed.She whispered: “Thank you…thank you…that was. Most of the single men she knew would ask her out on a date, but she just hadn't had the time to do anything about it and she didn't have the inclination. She'd split up with her childhood sweetheart who she had married almost twenty years ago and from that point to this, almost two years, she'd immersed herself in the shitty little bridal wear job. In fact, not only had she not had a man in her life, but her ex-husband was the only man she'd ever slept with. Being a good Catholic girl, he.